Cruel and unusual leadership. www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/h...

Common Kingfisher

Steller's Jay. Watercolor.

Orange-bellied trogon, Panama.

Amazing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YYZ...

Apapane (Hawaiian Honey Creeper), watercolor.

Well, it's about time. apnews.com/article/indi...

I can't breathe. apnews.com/article/less...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

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Go New Mexico! southwest.audubon.org/news/new-mex...

Black-capped Chickadee. Watercolor

Yup. hartmannreport.com/p/the-nfl-is...

Good question. hartmannreport.com/p/over-70000...

Northern Flickers. Watercolor.

Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.

How did we become the country that doesn't care about anything? hyperallergic.com/trump-withdr...

I can't breathe. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Brown Pelican. Watercolor.

First birds: dark-eyed juncos

Sandhill Crane. 18x24. Watercolor.

Holiday Spotted Towhee. (santa hat photoshopped in)

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/fi...

Hummingbird Head. Watercolor.

Common Cranes seen in New Mexico near where I live. I've never seen one. We have loads of Sandhill Cranes, but I had never heard of Common Cranes before. This checklist includes photos of them. ebird.org/checklist/S2...

Breakfast fowl.

William Wordsworth 1807

Indian Peafowl. Watercolor on clayboard.

“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Ruddy Duck. Watercolor on clayboard.

WTF? Really? Outrageous and should be criminal.

The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, a premier birding area in New Mexico, is closed. This is happening everywhere because Democrats stood up for health care. Other explanations are BS. FACT: Democrats stood up for us and Republicans shut down the government rather than help Americans. 💔

Loggerhead Shrike. Watercolor on clayboard.

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😢😿 www.today.com/news/jane-go...

Wow. Who knew? www.sciencing.com/1776246/bird...

Happy fall y'all.

Tell Your Democratic Senator(s) to Make Sure Schumer Doesn't Hand Trump a Blank Check act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

Flocks (community) works for people too. Us oldsters are easy pickings though.